The word "fondaco" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a commercial or trading warehouse or building, especially one used by foreign merchants. Example: The medieval city was bustling with activity as merchants from different countries unloaded their wares at the fondaco, eager to make a profit from the bustling trade route.
Either from the Fondaco dei Tedeschi ("Warehouse of the Germans") by the Rialto Bridge or in state-organized convoys, Venetian merchants continued to distribute the precious goods of the East through Europe.
Giorgione's principal public commission was the execution of frescoes on the exterior of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi (the German Exchange), where he painted the figures on the facade over the canal.
The exhibition will open June 1 at the Fondaco dei Tedeschi, a building owned by the Benetton Group that may ultimately become a Rem Koolhaas-designed retail and exhibition space.
Catena's collection, which also included (according to Catena's will of 1515) terra-cotta nudes, would have been a valuable resource for Giorgione, especially when planning his frescoes of nudes for the facade of the Fondaco dei Tedeschi (German Warehouse) by the Rialto bridge, which he completed in 1508, but of which only a few detached fragments now exist.
It was in this city, for example, that the first printed edition of the Qur'an was made in the 16th century; and the Fondaco dei Turchi, an elegant palazzo on the Grand Canal, was once the city's ghetto for Ottoman traders.
We visit the Venetian Fondaco, the Casino, the Caliph, the mysterious British Agency, the Kretevs who inhabit caves up on the great Escarpment through which the train, Hav's only land link to the rest of Europe, plunges daily down a zigzag tunnel.
The name T Fondaco Dei Tedeschi is meant to capitalize on the distinctiveness of the Venetian landmark (and, perhaps, to give the store an identity beyond DFS).
The Fondaco is being rechristened T Fondaco dei Tedeschi and turned into a 72,355-square-foot luxury emporium for the Hong Kong-based DFS Group.
The Fondaco will be the 17th retail complex DFS has opened in downtown and resort locations under the name T Galleria (the "T" stands for "traveler").
While its other urban outposts are primarily in Asia and the Pacific islands — there are three T Gallerias in Australia and New Zealand and one in Hawaii — the Fondaco will be DFS's first European location.
The group was considering Paris and other European cities, Mr. Schaus said, but when the Fondaco — which the Benetton family bought in 2008 through its holding company, Edizione — was offered for lease, they saw it as "an opportunity too good to miss".
